avalanche

i had a website in highschool, that i made in grade 9, i think. 1997 or so. it was called 'a bank where the wild thyme blows', after a line in a midsummer night's dream, and the address was http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/4488. there's nothing there anymore, since yahoo bought geocities, abolished the districts, and put advertising on every page. there was only a small ad at the top of each geocities page in 1997, and most of the ads were for other people's homepages, which i was certainly wiling to indulge. i made a lot of other sites then too, relying on my circa-1997 HTML knowledge and my burgeoning paint shop pro abilities. soon, my interest in graphic design outstripped my interest in actually 'developing content', and i ended up creating common font/colour schemes for a good 20 sites without any actual information or text to surround it. i wanted to make an empire, of sorts, all linked out from 'ABWTWTB'; the central site all about me, and each satellite devoted to a particular interest that reflected the respective district.

i loved the organization of geocities into districts(eg. SoHo) and neighbourhoods(eg. Coffeehouse), each with individual street addresses. each district was meant to group common interests together; there's a comprehensive list of the districts and neighbourhoods here. it's a real nostalgia rush to read through those.

i attempted to keep the central site updated daily. i was told by a friend who had a site about videogames that noone wanted to read daily updates, and that it wasn't necessary. i still tried to keep the schedule up. later, in 2000, i believe, i had another homemade site hosted on my older, cooler friend meighan's domain. i tried to update it weekly, at least, and eventually moved to diaryland, thinking that the chore of manually coding and formatting the update was what kept me from more consistent posts. in other words, foxbase alpha is merely the latest form of a project that i've been pursuing intermittently for eight years.

i'm feeling good lately. it's not unlike how i felt during grade 12. not just confident, but competent consistently since grade. i feel as if i know what i'm doing, and that i'm secure. i haven't felt that way since grade 12. that year, it meant that it was time to move on and try something new. in other words, it's time to move on and try something new. i'll give it until april 30th.

in other news, a new kate bush album, titled aerial, will be out on november 8th.